Now before we get started on this thought stream I must say that I have suffered from severe GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome) for most of my life, I’m not suggesting ...

In this article I’d like to dig into practice “concepts” and why they are so important. The transition from practising things to practising concepts seems to be a mile...

Really learning to get inside the music is becoming a lost activity and one I recommend all musicians get back into for their musical health!

When I was 18 years old and got accepted in the local classical conservatoire I had a lot of stuff I had to study. On top of the classical repertoire, techniques and h...

This month a want to share a little bit of fretboard logic that I discovered a few years back which really helped me unlock the guitar neck. I’d been messing about...

This month I want to delve into the mystical world of ‘playing what you hear’, what it really means, how I think it might work and how you can develop it. So to sta...

Being a first-hand purveyor of online ‘debate’ (and trolling!) one of the more common arguments I see is over ‘feel’ and ‘soul’ of certain guitarists – do those who pl...

“Practice what you can’t do, not what you can” is advice I’ve received and given over the years so much that it felt very wrong to question it. But when I had the plea...

While there is certainly no ‘one size fits all’ practice routine, there are some basic principles that can help you develop the best one for you, which is what this ar...